address on your resume?

Do you put your physical home address on your resume? The reason I ask is that I live in a VVHCOL town (known for its wealth) and am contemplating if I put it on (i'm just starting to job hunt) if that could be a turn off...and in this day of age - its not like they are likely to snail mail me anything anyway until there's an offer (plus once you get an interview I know sometimes you have to feel out an app form that will ask for it)

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I review a lot of resumes. You’ve gotta put your town, or nearby town on it.

I have an excel spreadsheet for ranking resumes and we hire remote employees. The 4th column to earn “points” is if you live in-near the place we are hiring. I don’t know about cost of living to judge that.

If you think they will judge you during the interview then they will judge you after you get hired. Would you want to work for them?

I'm in tech and do a lot of the interview set up. ANYONE who is being brought in from out of town (that could be 80 miles or across the country) needs to have a form on file with our relo company, and that requires a home address. If it is not on the resume, I have to ask for it.

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I have reviewed a lot of resumes recently and to be honest I don’t even usually notice or remember the address unless it’s non-local like over 1 1/2 hrs away (which we do get sometimes). Most people still include full addresses.

What are you worried about? Someone actually searching your address online and judging you for your house? I really don’t think that anyone cares that much.

Before they laid us all off they gave up some outplacement training and the so called resume experts said full address isn’t necessary anymore. Especially since you’ll be applying for most jobs on line and most correspondence is going to be via email and phone. I’ve noticed some places that have you fill out an on line form on top of sending in a resume, less then half require a full address. City and state seems sufficient for most at the application stage.

You need at least a town/city and state, IMO. As a hiring manager I need to know if someone is local to the position I am hiring for.

I'm really not interested in whether you live in a fancypants town, but if your fancypants town is 650 miles away I'm going to have to pay travel if I want to interview you in person, and I presume you're either going to want to be a remote employee (which requires a separate business process and legal approvals for me,among other things) or want relocation expenses, which run me 50% of your first year salary.

You need at least a town/city and state, IMO. As a hiring manager I need to k...

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11/03/2018

You need at least a town/city and state, IMO. As a hiring manager I need to know if someone is local to the position I am hiring for.

I'm really not interested in whether you live in a fancypants town, but if your fancypants town is 650 miles away I'm going to have to pay travel if I want to interview you in person, and I presume you're either going to want to be a remote employee (which requires a separate business process and legal approvals for me,among other things) or want relocation expenses, which run me 50% of your first year salary.

Just wondering - do you ask about that or do you just assume and automatically pass on the person if the position wouldn’t allow for those things?

Because someone could be currently out of the area but moving to the area for another reason and they will be local (on their own dime), but are not at the time of the interview.

Just wondering - do you ask about that or do you just assume and automaticall...

Posted
11/03/2018

Just wondering - do you ask about that or do you just assume and automatically pass on the person if the position wouldn’t allow for those things?

Because someone could be currently out of the area but moving to the area for another reason and they will be local (on their own dime), but are not at the time of the interview.

I punt to the recruiter to find out the answers to that, instead of setting up a phone screen. However, this is also one of the few instances of an objective statement on a resume that I have seen used effectively. I've also seen folks use PO boxes for this purpose (rent a PO box in the area they will be relocating to).

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